Nashville Holds Remembrance Vigil in Response to Las Vegas 10 Gun Masacre (tags)
Gil Evans, Alison Krause as well as many other artists performed and spoke in Nashville in front of a large crowd of Country Music fans.
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New Book Argues L.A. Country Music Culture Not Always So Conservative (tags)
While country music and SoCal's "Okie culture" are often thought to have been forever aligned with racial and social conservatism, this has not always been so true according to author Peter La Chapelle in his new book, Proud to Be an Okie: Cultural Politics, Country Music, and Migration to Southern California.
Willie Nelson's new song (tags)
Willie, like the Dixie Chicks, is speaking his mind about this president and this war.
ABC News Primetime interview: Country music group holds its own against right-wing attack (tags)
All in all, the Dixie Chicks held up well against the crude attempts by interviewer Diane Sawyer to browbeat them and convince them, as well as the viewing audience, that the vast majority of Americans consider any opposition to President Bush and the Iraq war tantamount to treason.
Why Did the Kennedy Center Shun Eddy Arnold? (tags)
Were the hidden hands of Al Gore and Ted Kennedy behind the deep-sixing of the nomination of country music legend Eddy Arnold for Kennedy Center Honors? The answer may yet emerge in the U. S. Senate race in Tennessee.